Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
Orson Scott Card
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Richland
Washington
Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
Made
Courses
Critics
People
Course
Various
Rather
Grief
Times
Angry
Also
Groups
Feel
Proud
Sometimes
Hear
Loathsome
Feels
Wonder
Detest
More quotes by Orson Scott Card
America is an empire that does not wish to be one we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
Orson Scott Card
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott Card
If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
Orson Scott Card
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
Orson Scott Card
The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
Orson Scott Card
If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
Orson Scott Card
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
Orson Scott Card
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
Orson Scott Card
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
Orson Scott Card
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
Orson Scott Card
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott Card
Quim, she said, don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.
Orson Scott Card
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
Orson Scott Card
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
Orson Scott Card
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
Orson Scott Card
The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
Orson Scott Card
There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.
Orson Scott Card
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.
Orson Scott Card
I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
Orson Scott Card
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
Orson Scott Card